alt Hacker News> Prior to HTML5, this was called a definition list. This is because the <dl> was originally only intended to represent glossaries of terms and their definitions.
TIL I’ve been naming it wrong for a decade.
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Ancapistani • today at 4:10 PM
You’re not alone. This is the second time this week I’ve seen that, and thought it was a mistake the first time.
xp84 • today at 3:19 PM
I don’t want to check what year html5 was standardized because I think it may be north of a decade ;)
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Bleh. <b> is apparently now bring attention to. As if.